Along the lines of the first thread, "Things you would love to say to your nursing instructors" I thought this would be a great thread to start. I've since graduated LVN but there was one main thing I wanted to say to some students in my class.
Will you people in the back row please stop talking! I swear that today I can still hear their motormouths running! :chuckle
When I am in the RN bridge I will come back and post some more. I'm sure some of you have something to get off your chest. Come on and unload here! :)
Supposedly it helps. But I find myself explaining more than getting anything out of it. Plus, it seems like they will talk out to me when they can clearly see I'm trying to focus. I wanted to smack this guy today. I was trying to study and he kept trying to talk to me. I wanted to yell, "Shut up! Can't you see I'm trying to study?"
Teaching is the best way to learn. But I still don't like study groups.
heres a few and iits only my first semester! i can just imagine how more intense it is going to get.
1.) the most obvious ... i dont want to share my test grades with you ... they are my grades i worked for them. i dont want you to increase or decrease your self esteem. worry about yourself, less about everyone else.
2,) we are in nursing school, not highschool. just stereotyping, judging, and criticizing people. if i dont mistaken, we learned this already as a nurse. if your doing it to people now, how are you going to act when your an actual nrrse?
3.) "when i become a nurse, i wont have to give bed baths"?? really .. what kind of planet are you living on bc last time i checked nurses and pcas work together .. and thats ifff you even have a pca to work with that day. get a clue .. and the job should be about these people and their health .. and less about the task associated with it.
4.) if you are in nursing school for the money, quit while your ahead .. and do all of society a favor bc i do not want a nurse taking care of me that doesnt have the compassion.
5.) i know i dont have kids, i wanted my career first BUT that does not give you the right to criticize everything i say and with the famous line " thats because you dont have kids yet" i still have nieces and nephews so i get the jist of it .... i just wanted to do it the right way. so stop judoging criticizing and stereotyping me again i think we learned this before!
6.) i know i may be younger than most of you, but that does not give you the right to feel like you are my mother. i have one thanks. i dont need to hear when i was your age ... because last time i checked we are in two different time periods .. and as much as we hate to say it things change!
phew. that made me feel a little better! thanks.
When does that happen? I have been a CNA since 1995 and never once have I had a nurse help me with a bed bath. Now, I am a nursing student and never once have I seen one of the nurses at my clinical sites helping a CNA do anything.
Personal care IS a part of being a nurse but in my experience, the only time it is a part is if you're working in a facility without aides.
Teaching is the best way to learn. But I still don't like study groups.
When does that happen? I have been a CNA since 1995 and never once have I had a nurse help me with a bed bath. Now, I am a nursing student and never once have I seen one of the nurses at my clinical sites helping a CNA do anything.
Personal care IS a part of being a nurse but in my experience, the only time it is a part is if you're working in a facility without aides.
I help out all of the time. I will change briefs, feed, bathe....whatever. My CNA's know I'm not afraid to help out.
When I worked in LTC as a LPN I helped a pt off of the commode, measured, and emptied. I went to find the CNA, because I didn't know how they did their computer charting, and she starts walking towards the room. I stopped her and told her pt was done, cleaned up, but I had no clue how to get into their computer on the wall. She was shocked and told me no nurses ever help. No wonder why she looked at me like I had grown another head! We are out there and when you graduate, please don't forget it :)
I help out all of the time. I will change briefs, feed, bathe....whatever. My CNA's know I'm not afraid to help out.
When I worked in LTC as a LPN I helped a pt off of the commode, measured, and emptied. I went to find the CNA, because I didn't know how they did their computer charting, and she starts walking towards the room. I stopped her and told her pt was done, cleaned up, but I had no clue how to get into their computer on the wall. She was shocked and told me no nurses ever help. No wonder why she looked at me like I had grown another head! We are out there and when you graduate, please don't forget it :)
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm just saying I've never seen it happen. When we go to our next clinical site, I expect I will see it happen then, because I've heard that hospital doesn't hire aides.
You've been working as a CNA since 1995 and have never seen it happen!?! I'm afraid you've been working in the wrong places. I see nurses help all of the time. I worked as a CNA for many years and most nurses were awesome. I'm sorry you haven't experienced the feeling of teamwork. I can only hope that when you become a nurse, you will remember never getting that help and dive in to help as much as possible.
I can't always help, I have a ton of paperwork to get done before I can leave, but I always try to help out in any way I can.
You've been working as a CNA since 1995 and have never seen it happen!?! I'm afraid you've been working in the wrong places. I see nurses help all of the time. I worked as a CNA for many years and most nurses were awesome. I'm sorry you haven't experienced the feeling of teamwork. I can only hope that when you become a nurse, you will remember never getting that help and dive in to help as much as possible.
I can't always help, I have a ton of paperwork to get done before I can leave, but I always try to help out in any way I can.
1. I dont feel better about myself saying this...in fact, I have all the humility you lack and therefore feel sheepish fear saying this about another student, but....
Good riddance! God, I thought youd never go away. Your attitude is nothing short of dangerous, you seem to mistakenly believe that your failed attempt at becoming an EMT somehow gives you an edge, and you spend more time waiting in front of the instuctors door to make excuses than you do working in the clinical lab. And, my god....your breath! How in hell can I smell your breath every time you exhale, in spite of the fact that you are a good four or five feet away? And BEHIND me!?
Thanks so much for sharing your smug and misguided wisdom with me, because after all...youre absolutely right! No one WILL know when you turn your back on a sterile field, so who cares, right? WRONG! I wondered how long your excuses would work while other students who excel are held to high standards. Guess not very long! See ya!
2. Stop acting like a jealous five year old when my friend, who IS smarter than you and me combined, outperforms you. I resent the way you compliment her to her face to discover her test results, and ridicule her when she walks away. You are going to be awesome in a hospital setting. I mean it. I look forward to working with you in the future, when SHE is your boss and I ask you to empty the trash!
3. No, sorry. I do not believe that Dr. So-and-so likes to make up trick questions. I think the real problem is that you repeatedly convince yourself and other fools that the material on the next exam is just "common sense", and in so doing, find another reason to justify your lack of motivation and intellectual humility.
4. It was so nice talking to you yesterday! Usually, you glare at me like the bitter ice queen that you are. Lucky me, though! This time, you were interested in my grade, so you could find another comparison between the two of us to resentment me for. Dont hate me because I can answer questions when called upon to do so, and certainly dont hate me because I am beautiful. Hate me because you annoy me as much as I annoy you!
1. I dont feel better about myself saying this...in fact, I have all the humility you lack and therefore feel sheepish fear saying this about another student, but....
Good riddance! God, I thought youd never go away. Your attitude is nothing short of dangerous, you seem to mistakenly believe that your failed attempt at becoming an EMT somehow gives you an edge, and you spend more time waiting in front of the instuctors door to make excuses than you do working in the clinical lab. And, my god....your breath! How in hell can I smell your breath every time you exhale, in spite of the fact that you are a good four or five feet away? And BEHIND me!?
Thanks so much for sharing your smug and misguided wisdom with me, because after all...youre absolutely right! No one WILL know when you turn your back on a sterile field, so who cares, right? WRONG! I wondered how long your excuses would work while other students who excel are held to high standards. Guess not very long! See ya!
2. Stop acting like a jealous five year old when my friend, who IS smarter than you and me combined, outperforms you. I resent the way you compliment her to her face to discover her test results, and ridicule her when she walks away. You are going to be awesome in a hospital setting. I mean it. I look forward to working with you in the future, when SHE is your boss and I ask you to empty the trash!
3. No, sorry. I do not believe that Dr. So-and-so likes to make up trick questions. I think the real problem is that you repeatedly convince yourself and other fools that the material on the next exam is just "common sense", and in so doing, find another reason to justify your lack of motivation and intellectual humility.
4. It was so nice talking to you yesterday! Usually, you glare at me like the bitter ice queen that you are. Lucky me, though! This time, you were interested in my grade, so you could find another comparison between the two of us to resentment me for. Dont hate me because I can answer questions when called upon to do so, and certainly dont hate me because I am beautiful. Hate me because you annoy me as much as I annoy you!
Was it as good for you as it was for me?
Wow, these first two make me wonder if you aren't a classmate of mine!
I did not come in two hours early to socialize, answer questions from lecture or the reading, loan you my book (because you refuse to buy one), tell you what AMS, ROMI, R/O etc means for the tenth time, talk about your date last night, listen to you cry and whine about how hard school is, etc....
If I am ignoring you I am not unprofessional and rude, I am working. Learn how to read people and let me study!!!
OK I feel better. I was reported to my instructor yesterday for being rude to two people in my clinical group, because I would talk to them while I was trying to finish my careplan, (on my own time). I thought it was very obvious I was working hard?? The other five people in my group realized it?
You might have straight As but your personality sucks and so do your manners, go buy yourself something nice for Christmas and stop wearing pjs to class. Thank you.
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CrazierThanYou
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Teaching is the best way to learn. But I still don't like study groups.
When does that happen? I have been a CNA since 1995 and never once have I had a nurse help me with a bed bath. Now, I am a nursing student and never once have I seen one of the nurses at my clinical sites helping a CNA do anything.
Personal care IS a part of being a nurse but in my experience, the only time it is a part is if you're working in a facility without aides.